\u201cIran will not get nuclear weapons… gas prices will fall further,\u201d and \u201cwe don\u2019t want transit fees in the Strait… the carrier off Cuba isn\u2019t meant as a threat.\u201d President Donald Trump reiterated that the United States will secure Iran\u2019s stockpile of highly enriched uranium and said the conflict would be ended soon.His remarks came immediately after reports that Iran\u2019s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had ordered that enriched uranium not be exported abroad \u2014 a development likely to complicate negotiations. At a White House event in Washington, D.C., on the 21st (local time), reporters asked whether Iran could continue to hold its highly enriched uranium. \u201cNo,\u201d Trump replied. \u201cWe will secure it. We don\u2019t need it and we don\u2019t want it, so after we secure it we will probably destroy it.\u201dIran is believed to hold roughly 440 kg (about 970 lb) of uranium enriched to about 60%. The United States has demanded that, as part of any ceasefire agreement, that material be shipped out of Iran and sent overseas, including potentially to the U.S. Uranium enriched to 90% or higher is considered weapons-grade and can be used to build a nuclear weapon.\u201cWe\u2019re negotiating now, and in any way possible we will prevent them from obtaining nuclear weapons,\u201d Trump said. \u201cThe war with Iran will end very soon, and gasoline prices will be lower than before.\u201dOn the Strait of Hormuz, Trump insisted the waterway is international and said, \u201cwe want transit to be free of tolls.\u201d He defended the deployment of a U.S. carrier strike group to the Caribbean off Cuba as not intended to threaten the Cuban government, while also describing Cuba as a \u201cfailed state\u201d lacking electricity, money, and food, and pledging that the U.S. would continue to help the Cuban people.Earlier, Reuters quoted two senior Iranian sources saying the supreme leader had ordered that enriched uranium must not leave Iran. The sources said Iran\u2019s leadership believes exporting the material would make the country more vulnerable to U.S. and Israeli attacks. They added that, although the gap between U.S. and Iranian ceasefire demands has narrowed, significant disagreements remain over how to handle Iran\u2019s enriched uranium, whether to recognize enrichment rights, and other elements of Iran\u2019s nuclear program.Israeli officials told Reuters that Trump had promised Israel he would insist on including a clause in any peace negotiations requiring the removal of the highly enriched uranium Iran would need to build nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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